epa05379006 A handout picture made available by the National Supercomputing Center on 20 June 2016 shows the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, located at the state-owned Chinese Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, China. The new supercomputer is more than twice as powerful as Tianhe-2, topping the previous winner of the list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world, according to TOP500 on 20 June 2016, a research organization that compiles the rankings twice a year. EPA/NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
BEIJING: China has built the world's fastest supercomputer using locally made microchips, a survey said, the first time the country has taken the top spot without using US technology.
The Sunway TaihuLight machine is twice as fast as the previous number one, which was built in China with chips from US firm Intel, the Top500 survey of supercomputers said on its website www.top500.org.
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